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Events on February 21

• 1848 On behalf of the League of the Communists, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto, in which they already develop extensive parts of the social theory later known as Marxism.
• 1916 The Battle of Verdun, which lasts until 18 December, begins in the First World War. For the first time, the German side uses twelve captive balloons in a coordinated attack. The field airmen provide information for battlefield reconnaissance.
• 1919 The student Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley commits an assassination against Bavarian Premier Kurt Eisner. The murder of the socialist statesman is one of the causes of the proclamation of the Munich Soviet Republic on 7 April.
• 1925 The first issue of the US-American magazine The New Yorker, founded by Harold Ross, is published.
• 1946 The first issue of the national German weekly newspaper Die Zeit is published as a licensed newspaper with a circulation of 25,000 copies.
• 1947 The physicist Edwin Herbert Land introduces the first instant camera in New York together with the Polaroid company.
• 1962 Bavarian Broadcasting broadcasts “The Ghost in the Workshop”, the first episode of the radio drama series Master Eder and His Pumuckl. The distinctive voice of Pumuckl is provided by Hans Clarin.
• 1965 During a speech in Harlem, New York, the civil rights activist Malcolm X is shot. The three assassins presumably come from the circle around Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam.
• 1972 US President Richard Nixon visits the People's Republic of China and holds talks with Mao Zedong in Peking.
• 1989 The writer and regime critic Václav Havel is sentenced to nine months of increased imprisonment for “hooliganism”. Later in the same year, after the “Velvet Revolution”, he is elected President of Czechoslovakia.
• 1999 The German Martin Schmitt from Furtwangen wins the gold medal in ski jumping on the large hill at the Nordic World Ski Championships, while the silver medal goes to Sven Hannawald from Hinterzarten.
• 2004 In Rome, the European Green Party is founded as the first pan-European party. It is made up of 35 parties from 32 European countries.

Born on February 21

• 1880 Waldemar Bonsels, German writer
• 1893 Andrés Segovia, Spanish guitarist
• 1920 Leo Scheffczyk, German priest, theologian and cardinal
• 1950 Håkan Nesser, Swedish writer
• 1973 Paulo Rink, German-Brazilian football player
• 1980 Tiziano Ferro, Italian pop singer
• 1981 Floor Jansen, Dutch singer
• 1990 Daniel Didavi, German football player
• 1991 Riyad Mahrez, Algerian football player
• 2002 Marcus & Martinus, Norwegian musicians

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „21. Februar“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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